Help cutting back and/or quitting

Are the pods refillable (I don't know much about the blu)? If they are, you could try cutting down your nic bit by bit, using lower nic content juices. Or, you could just decide to go to 0 nic juice, detoxing from nicotine (is reportedly, I have not tried it nor am I planning to) is easier than tobacco, I certainly find that when necessary I can go longer without vaping than I could smoking. The issue with slowly lowering your nic is that it may cause you to vape more, in search of more nicotine.

You could also "practice quit" like not take your vape with you during an outing of a couple hours or so and see how you do, etc. Lots of behavioral strategies available.

If you enjoy the sensation of vaping but not the nic, I'd say your best shot would be to go to 0 nic, tough it out for a bit, and then enjoy vaping the way you want to, occasionally.

Best of luck with whatever you decide,

Anna

First I would simply slowly wean myself off of the nic. Lower nic a few mg a week and don't carry the blu everywhere. The biggest challenge will be finding a substitute for the hand to mouth habit IMO.

Using a Blu set-up IS very expensive because of the price of the cartridges you have to use with it. Using a different set-up, (even a simple Evod starter set, or eGo battery and tank) would be much less $$, if you just wanted to continue but not get a much more powerful and modern set-up.

But, if you want to wean yourself completely off nic and quit vaping -

Since you've already cut down from 24mg nic to 12mg nic, I'd suggest slowly dropping the nic mg over a period of weeks/months. If they make a 6mg, and a 3mg, as well as the 0mg...that would be ideal, IMO. Going down slowly, step by step, should make it easier.

When my brother wanted to quit vaping, he gradually moved to zero.

He started to find that his gear became a hassle and finally put it down for good.

Cnc10 said:

... I just want to cut back while still using the Blu since that is what I have. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions that anyone has to help me cut back or quit completely. I don't like the feeling that I have a monkey on my back again. Thank you so much for your help.

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Sometimes that Monkey doesn't just sit there waiting for a Chemical. But it feeds off the Mental side also.

Like when someone Can't Stop chewing on their Nails. They aren't Addicted to some Chemical.

Sure, I'd suggest trying Lowering your Nicotine Level and see if that helps. But I would also suggest looking at how much you Carry and or Hold your e-Cigarette during the day.

At Home, after you take a Few Hits, try putting it down on the other side of the Room.
When you are out and about, try putting it in the Glove Box of your Car.
At work, I'd put it in your Desk or Locker or someplace out of the way.
And don't carry it in your Pocket when you go into places like the Store or the Bank or a Movie or the ... etc.

The Mental Side of things can be just as hard to Break as some Chemical Dependencies. And Good Way to start is by Breaking the Physical Connection you have with an e-Cigarette.

It might just take will power, since you want to stay with the Blu and the lowest they sell is 12mg or 0mg.

Are Blu pods refillable? If so he can step down nic with 12 and 0.

How about purposely, forgetting to charge the device?[emoji38] I don't think blue's are refillable, so properly reducing nic maybe hard. You may need to invest in another inexpensive device, so you can incrementally lower nic

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I don't know any thing about the blu e cigarettes, but even chain vaping store bought e juice all day and buying coils I've never spent more than 20 - 25 dollars a month on vaping... i spend less now that I make my own coils and juice, so I can't see how price factors in unless you've recently lost a job, or are sub ohming 20-30 ml of store bought e juice a day.

However, I can fully understand wanting to quit vaping and/or not wanting to feel like you "need" to vape.

I had made the attempt to quit twice and I'll explain what worked and what didn't, and what I learned in the process.

But first, I smoked for 32 years of my life, since I was 13 years old. I tried to quit smoking many times, very unsuccessfully. At least, that was before vaping. Everyone who knew me, my kids and family, had watched me go through so many quit attempts prior to vaping that no one who knew me thought vaping would be any different - but to everyone's surprise, myself included, I very successfully made the switch to vaping.

After about a year of vaping I was leaving the house and forgetting my vape, and not missing it at all even when I was gone for hours at a time. It was at that point I decided I just didn't need it anymore.

I never stepped down my nicotine levels or anything, I just threw away all my vape gear one day - decided a clean break would make it easier. It didn't.

I quit vaping around a smoker, namely, my husband, and that whole year he smoked around me and it didn't bother me. But when I was craving a vape, some nicotine, and had no vape his cigarettes looked really good. About two weeks into my vaping quit I was stressed and broke down and smoked one of his cigarettes. That one cigarette led to another which led to me buying a pack which led to me buying a carton and I was smoking again... That whole year down the drain.

At one point I realized how stupid it was to be smoking again when all I needed to do was buy vape gear again, and so I bought vape gear once more and quit smoking once again. (By the way, it's harder the second time to quit - much harder...)

But, I succeeded and was vaping again. Thing was, now I was terrified to even try to quit vaping because now I knew deep inside me vaping was all that stood between me and smoking. Which had the end result of making me feel just as addicted to vaping as I had been to smoking, at least on the mental level, and I didn't like that feeling.

So for me, to be rid of the addiction I had to be rid of vaping without going back to smoking so one day I decided to do just that. I vaped zero nic for a couple weeks prior to quitting vaping, just what I had been given as taste testers for free (and I had about two weeks worth of those testers built up) and then proceeded to quit vaping.

That time I threw nothing away, I simply stored my gear in a box and stored the box under my bed, and treated quitting vaping differently that time, at least from a mental standpoint. That time I knew it wasn't going to be easy and I was determined to do it without a return to smoking.

Where I normally kept my vape I placed water, took a sip every time I reached for my vape, and worked more on keeping my hands occupied. I exercised a little extra as well. That time, I successfully quit vaping for around 5 months without returning to smoking.

At the end of that I had a weak moment, wanted a vape, and convinced myself it was only one drag... it was more than that of course, for me one drag was months now.

Next time I try to quit vaping I will know that if I give in to even one weak moment it will be a while before I stop again. .. good to know for me, never give in to weakness. . Lol.

Anyway, it's been a learning process. Each time I've learned something about myself, what works and what doesn't etc. And I also know that next time I quit I will be successful for, hopefully, the rest of my life. I'm just not wanting to right now, maybe because I feel less like an addict this time. I know I CAN, if I ever need to, and for me perhaps that was enough. .

We are all different, if you learned anything or take away something positive that is helpful for you of my experiences then I'm glad.

Good luck to you.

Vaping is no where near as addicting as smokes. I had the flu last week (yes I spent Thanksgiving week sick). Normally I vape about 10ml per day, but last week I bet I didn't vape 8ml total all week. Some days I didn't vape more than a puff or two. If I had still been smoking I would have not missed a cigarette. The point is your "addiction" is probably more a hand to mouth thing at this point. Just don't keep your Blu in arms reach all the time and I bet you vape less.